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Roger Federer

Current ranking No. 1 (9 July 2012)

Grand Slam Singles titles:17

US Open W (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)

Australian Open W (2004, 2006, 2007, 2010)

French Open W (2009)

Wimbledon W (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012) 

unbelievable scorecard

Sri Lanka 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	ST Jayasuriya	c Ganguly b Chauhan	340	799	578	36	2	58.82
	MS Atapattu	c †Mongia b Kulkarni	26	42	31	5	0	83.87
	RS Mahanama	lbw b Kumble	225	753	561	27	0	40.10
	PA de Silva	c Prasad b Ganguly	126	293	211	16	0	59.71
	A Ranatunga*	run out (sub [A Jadeja]/†Mongia)	86	150	110	14	0	78.18
	DPMD Jayawardene	c Kulkarni b Ganguly	66	133	105	10	0	62.85
	RS Kaluwitharana†	not out	14	42	27	1	0	51.85
	WPUJC Vaas	not out	11	36	24	0	0	45.83
	Extras	(b 28, lb 9, w 7, nb 14)	58
	Total	(6 wickets dec; 271 overs)	952	(3.51 runs per over)

Sachin-The maestro

LIST OF RECORDS HELD BY SACHIN TENDULKAR

1. Sachin Tendulkar is the Highest Run scorer in the One day Internationals 2. Sachin Tendulkar is the Highest Run scorer in  the Test Cricket 3. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 49 4. Most number of hundreds in the Tests 51   (100 international tons) 5. Most number of nineties in the ODI 6. Most number of man of the matches in the ODI's -61 7. Most number of man of the series(15) in ODI's 8. Best average for man of the matches in ODI's 9. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI 10. First Cricketer to pass 15000, 16000, 17000, 18000 runs in the ODI 11. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup - 2560 runs at an  average of 56.95 12. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup 13. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket  World Cup at an average of 87.16 14. Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket  World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket WC 15. Man of the Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup. 16. Most number of Fifties in ODI's 17. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.  18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket,  and the first Indian to do so. 19. First and only cricketer to get Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna. India's  highest sporting honor 20. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2  in all time Greatest ODI player 21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after  Sir Donald Bradman. 22. he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game  in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli. 23. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy,  Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts 24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player  to represent Yorkshire 25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award  and Padma vibhushan by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer  to get all of them. And the only cricketer to receive Padma vibhushan. 26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 8 times 27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman 28.First batsman in the history who was given out through third umpire. 29. He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when  team looses a match. Out of his 61 man of the match awards only 7 times  India has lost. 30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards against Australia 31. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries  in international cricket 32. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries  in international cricket: 99 centuries 33. Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s) he had  accumulated almost 33294 runs overall. (as of dec 14) 34. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the  maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have  put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches 35. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a  world record 36. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest  partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand  in 1999 (Sachin 186*, Dravid 153) 37. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI  matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid 38. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998 39. Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and  87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007) 40. the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 - 15, 000and 16,000  run marks IN ODI. 41. Maximum number of boundaries in a single innings, holds the record  with sehwag (25 fours) 42. Maximum number of 150 plus scores in ODIs 43. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations. 44. Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the  highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs 45. Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds 46. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185 47. On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world 48. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest  to score a century 49. Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current  world record 50. Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season)  for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side. 51. Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations. He was the  third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten 52. Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test cricket with 1000 or more runs - 2002  (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).[6] Gavaskar  is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs 53. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world. 54. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world  record of runs scored in Tests away from home 55. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket  history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings 56. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches 57. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third  International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara. 58. Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh  (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), have appeared in more games than Tendulkar. 59. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches for India (Kapil Dev is  second with 131 Test appearances). 60. First to 25,000 n 30,000 international runs 61. Tendulkar's 33,000+ runs in international cricket include 18000+ runs  in ODI's, 15,000+ Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played. 62. On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi  against Sri Lanka. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 centuries to become  the man with the most number of hundreds in Test cricket. 63. Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI 64. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests 65. Sachin hit the first double century in the 40 year history of one day internationals

Yatra Special

Amarnath Yatra

Situated at a height of 3,880 metres in the Himalayas, the cave enshrines a naturally formed ice-lingam, symbol of Lord Shiva, which waxes and wanes with the moon, reaching its maximum dimensions on the day of pilgrimage. This is where, Hindus believe, Lord Shiva explained the secret of salvation to his consort Parvati on a full moon night. Every year in the month of Shravana (June-August), when the moon is full, thousands of devout pilgrims gather before Amarnath Cave in the picturesque Lidder Valley in Kashmir to offer their prayers to Lord Shiva.